Red White & Blue 2010)

Written and directed by Simon Rumley this fairly straight forward yet massively bleak film follows a disaffected and promiscuous Erica as she sleeps with a series of nameless men, until one day she is befriended by a Mansonesque guy called Nate (played brilliantly by Noah Taylor) an ex-Iraq war veteran with a sociopath's streak. Set in Austin Texas, it's fairly hard nosed, gripping and definitely unflinching. Not a masterpiece but a definate cut above the rest in the genre. 

6.5/10